CONSTANTINE CARAVASSILIS

C O N S T A N T I N E C A R A V A S S I L I S

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Oct. 4^th – 16^th

2007

World Premiere of

CANDLES in the SAME SPACE

(Poetry of C.P.Cavafy)

Message from the Artistic Director:
The London Song Festival is a new event in London's musical and cultural calendar, built entirely around the classical song repertoire. Four concerts in October, all with a Mediterranean theme, will feature prestigious singers including Martene Grimson, Jeremy Huw Williams and Roderick Williams, singing alongside exciting new vocal talent. Sarah Walker will be giving public master-classes, and there will be premieres of new works specially commissioned for the Festival.

The London Song Festival is born out of only one thing: my love of the song repertoire and my desire to share this love with the widest possible number of people, from school pupil to senior citizen. The world of song is a world in miniature - a short song of three minutes or less can contain the whole gamut of human emotion and experience, and be a perfect blending together of music and poetry, singer and pianist. It is my heartfelt wish that more and more people, both within the music profession and outside it, will enter into this world, savour and enjoy it, and be transported by its magic.

- Nigel Foster

Links:

London Song Festival 2007

http://www.londonsongfestival.org/index.php

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OPEN STRINGS 2006

July 17^th – 26^th

2006

OPEN STRINGS FESTIVAL/MASTERCLASS SERIES FOR CELLISTS

Constantine has been named composer-in-residence with the 2006 “Open Strings Masterclass Series” in Lolland Island, Denmark. During the festival, a new commissioned work for 3 solo celli and cello orchestra (Triple Concerto - For Synaesthetes) will receive it‘s world premiere in “Rundetårn”' on July 26^th, with the composer on the podium. Constantine will also lead the ensemble in Per Nørgård ‘s “Octet” for strings.

Open Strings was established in 2004 under the direction of Danish Cellist Jacob Kullberg and performing arts impresario Christine Krabbe (Artistic Director), and it is a major attraction for distinguished teachers, performers and students from all over Europe.

Christine Krabbe http://www.rundetaarn.dk Jakob Kullberg, cellist

Artistic Director Founder

Links:

OPEN STRINGS 2006

http://www.openstrings.org/

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D I C E

Chamber Opera in 3 Acts

Jul-Aug. 2005

In the summer of 2005, Constantine was composer-in-residence with the University of Manitoba‘s Contemporary Opera Lab. The commissioned piece, a 40-minute chamber opera “Dice” was premiered on Friday, August 19^th, 2005 at the Contemporary Dancer‘s Studio in Winnipeg, with Dr. Laura Loewen (Professor of Collaborative Piano, University of Manitoba) on the piano and guest conductor Dairine Ni Mheadhra, leading a team of singers who came from all over Canada, to participate in this event. Special thanks to Mel Braun, professor of voice at the Faculty of Music, University of Manitoba and the entire Faculty of Music for their generous support. The story of Dice was written by the composer and the texts were developed by Luke Nickel. Costume and stage design was managed and developed by Ann Hodges (Vancouver Opera).